Founding Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Department: Engineering

Location: Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)

Compensation: $190K – $250K • 0.2% – 0.9% • Housing subsidy offered!

Employment Type: FullTime

About us

Our mission at Credal is to harness frontier AI for everyone building a better future.

We accelerate the most complex, sophisticated operations of the most impactful institutions, while weaving security and governance into every part of our product. Our customers include the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, MongoDB, Comcast NBC Universal, Lattice, Wise (Transferwise), Checkr, and incident.io among others.

We’ve raised over $10m to date with a ton of runway. You’ll join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ from places like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google.

📍 Credal is in-person in our spacious NYC office with meals provided.

About the role

We’re looking for a founding backend-focused software engineer to help us build on our progress, with proven market demand from global enterprises, to a scalable, performant architecture while maintaining our industry leading security posture.

What you’ll do:

• Own aspects of our stability, scalability and security as we onboard more customers and expand our product

• Ensure we can successfully sync billions of records into our data platform from our customers’ SaaS tools reliably

• Contribute to architecture, design decisions, and code and product quality strategy

• Engage directly with customers and our GTM team to discover and solve our customers’ most complex and bleeding edge problems

• Mentor junior engineers and continue raising our bar for engineering excellence

• Take end-to-end ownership of our core products, built on…

  • Frontend: React, Typescript, NextJS, Tailwind

  • Backend: Typescript, Temporal, NextJS, Gel/PostgreSQL

  • AI/ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Gemini, Milvus/QDrant/MongoDB

  • Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes

About you

You might be a great fit if you’re a strong developer in all backend from architecture & scalability to data infrastructure. You have a deep interest in Agentic AI / LLM applications even if you do not have AI experience.

• Eager to join our mission of bringing Frontier Intelligence to the industries and institutions that matter the most to human welfare - e.g., healthcare, government, financial infrastructure

• Coding comes naturally to you, you do it for fun, and excel at it for work

• 4+ years building software with a focus on backend (system architecture, data scale, application security) ideally in excellent engineering cultures

• You set a high bar for craft and execution, and you’re known as a creative, trusted, resourceful teammate who elevates those around you

• High-ownership - owning things (projects, outcomes, customer unlocks) from ambiguous start to clean finish

• Thrives in fast-paced environments - biasing towards action, not waiting for other people to tell you what to do or how to solve a problem

• Customer-focused - you care about customers’ challenges and dreams, and are energized by empowering people

• Doer of things (technical or otherwise) people told you were impossible or foolish before

• Enjoys mentoring and accelerating people around you that are hungry to learn but may have less experience

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t perfectly match this description but believe you would be a good fit with our values and culture. We embrace driven people who may not fit the mold or check every box.

Benefits and work environment

• We reject toxicity and we embrace care for each other. A magical company culture and your wellbeing is leadership's top priority. Every decision we make as a company is evaluated through that lens.

• Opportunities to network, grow, and advance quickly. We're a small, but rapidly expanding, team - and we always aim to promote from within first.

• Free team lunch & dinner.

• Situational hybrid work flexibility.

• High quality health coverage, including great mental health benefits, for you and your immediate family. This includes comprehensive and HSA options.

• Industry-leading vision, dental, life, disability coverage.

• We encourage you to take up to 12 weeks of parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child.

• Regular team activities & offsite events (last year we went to Turks and Caicos for a hackathon week!)

• Unlimited PTO - and unlike some other companies, we're serious about you taking the time you need to recharge and be the best you can be! We also offer a guaranteed two weeks off during the last two weeks of December when the entire company goes on vacation!

• A generous housing subsidy for those who choose to live in Brooklyn.

• Our spacious office in Dumbo has a stocked kitchen and views of the bridge.

Interview process

• Intro conversation with CTO or COS.

• Virtual tech screen.

• Onsite to meet our engineering team and CEO.

• References (we check references on everyone at Credal to make sure all your future coworkers are world class and great to be around).

More about us

We’ve built the industry’s highest ceiling and most secure Action & Agent building platform for sticky, custom AI workflows. Use cases span countless domains, including: KYC, anti-money laundering, healthcare regulation, climate standards setting, cybersecurity, sales, people, IT, and customer support.

• Cultural principles

• Team of 13 with 9 engineers.

• 7-figure ARR.

• >100% NRR.

• Product docs, case studies, blog, podcast